Life's little surprises

[Peter Voice]

Today, I turned up to my first major gig for some time. It was like a Chalk Circle re-union with Bev and Ulla. We were like a well oiled machine just touching bases for the start tomorrow.

The client is Melbourne Museum with whom we have previously done serious ground-breaking work, 3 months negotiations, hellish budget and insurance issues and staggering amount of admin bullshit. The gig is pretty serious.

We were booked to give 2 workshops, one morning and one afternoon, for up to 30 people/students per class for 8 of the next ten days. Tomorrow, Sunday and next weekend are also fully open to the public. 12 in total.

Due to a communication glitch in the client's beaurocracy they booked 8 groups per day for a 90 minute workshop. All between 11am and 3pm.

The marketing guy was thrilled and couldn't believe how easy the show was to sell.

Negotiations continue.

[Peter Voice]

Day 6 of the afore-mentioned gig.

We have now reached a point where we can talk to each other and the client's representatives without fear of ambulances and other civil officials being involved but we still have 3 days to go and contractual problems have not yet been resolved.

27 workshops and approximately 800 participants so far

I have posted a pic of part of the work in the p.art gallery at http://www.performers.net/forums/sho...8419#post28419

[Lynneski]

And the new winner's of the Rumple award for bravest marathon performance on a street goes to ....

I am impressed and astonished at your stamina, not to mention the fortitude you've shown in the lack of dismemberments and beheadings.

Well done, Chalkies. Oh, and lovely work to boot.

[Peter Voice]

That's only half of it. On the other side of the plaza, we hand-painted 380 multi-coloured and decorated individual frames of which 363 were filled in as of today, Friday.

Two more days to go.

I'll put a couple of individual examples of the kids' work up in the p.art gallery.